In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.

2 out of 5 stars

Read this before buying, too much hype

By
Bradley
on
06-23-17

The Atlantis Gene

The Origin Mystery, Book 1

By:
A.G. Riddle

Narrated by:
Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
7,038

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
6,350

Story

4 out of 5 stars
6,369

Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.

Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.

3 out of 5 stars

Wonderfully Horrible

By
Laura Roderick
on
07-29-17

Departure

By:
A.G. Riddle

Narrated by:
Nicola Barber,
Scott Aiello

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
6,026

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,526

Story

4 out of 5 stars
5,504

En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they've crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home?

4 out of 5 stars

A Great Sci-Fi Story With Lots of Twists and Turns

By
Cheri
on
09-01-15

Extinction Code

Ancient Origins Series, Book 1

By:
James D. Prescott

Narrated by:
Gary Tiedemann

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
567

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
522

Story

4 out of 5 stars
520

Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago. A few miles off the Yucatán coast, Jack and a team of scientists tow an aging drilling platform over the impact crater with the aim of securing a sample. But buried deep beneath the earth lies a shocking discovery that threatens to shatter everything we think we know about the origins of our species.

4 out of 5 stars

the story is solid and entertaining

By
AudioBook Reviewer
on
04-04-18

The Ark

A Novel

By:
Boyd Morrison

Narrated by:
Boyd Gaines

Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
611

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
478

Story

4 out of 5 stars
482

When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah’s Ark—the artifact her father had long been searching for—and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke—a man she’s never heard of.

4 out of 5 stars

great summer read

By
Veneda
on
08-23-10

The Others

By:
Jeremy Robinson

Narrated by:
R. C. Bray

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
136

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
131

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
130

Dan Delgado is a private investigator. He’s unenthusiastic, and unmatched. As a former San Francisco detective, he misses more meaningful work, but he hasn’t had the heart for it since his wife’s death five years prior. That is, until a phone call from a distraught mother, an illegal immigrant who can’t go to the police, puts him on the hunt for a missing little girl. By the time he reaches the mother’s small home, she’s missing, too. Then a team of heavily armed mercenaries arrive. Delgado and crew are plunged into a dangerous world of corporate competition, UFO lore, and government cover-ups.

4 out of 5 stars

Action packed humor

By
Bree Salyer
on
07-31-18

Pandemic

The Extinction Files, Book 1

By:
A. G. Riddle

Narrated by:
Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,495

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,141

Story

4 out of 5 stars
4,130

In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.

2 out of 5 stars

Read this before buying, too much hype

By
Bradley
on
06-23-17

The Atlantis Gene

The Origin Mystery, Book 1

By:
A.G. Riddle

Narrated by:
Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
7,038

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
6,350

Story

4 out of 5 stars
6,369

Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.

Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.

3 out of 5 stars

Wonderfully Horrible

By
Laura Roderick
on
07-29-17

Departure

By:
A.G. Riddle

Narrated by:
Nicola Barber,
Scott Aiello

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
6,026

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,526

Story

4 out of 5 stars
5,504

En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they've crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home?

4 out of 5 stars

A Great Sci-Fi Story With Lots of Twists and Turns

By
Cheri
on
09-01-15

Extinction Code

Ancient Origins Series, Book 1

By:
James D. Prescott

Narrated by:
Gary Tiedemann

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
567

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
522

Story

4 out of 5 stars
520

Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago. A few miles off the Yucatán coast, Jack and a team of scientists tow an aging drilling platform over the impact crater with the aim of securing a sample. But buried deep beneath the earth lies a shocking discovery that threatens to shatter everything we think we know about the origins of our species.

4 out of 5 stars

the story is solid and entertaining

By
AudioBook Reviewer
on
04-04-18

The Ark

A Novel

By:
Boyd Morrison

Narrated by:
Boyd Gaines

Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
611

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
478

Story

4 out of 5 stars
482

When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah’s Ark—the artifact her father had long been searching for—and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke—a man she’s never heard of.

4 out of 5 stars

great summer read

By
Veneda
on
08-23-10

The Others

By:
Jeremy Robinson

Narrated by:
R. C. Bray

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
136

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
131

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
130

Dan Delgado is a private investigator. He’s unenthusiastic, and unmatched. As a former San Francisco detective, he misses more meaningful work, but he hasn’t had the heart for it since his wife’s death five years prior. That is, until a phone call from a distraught mother, an illegal immigrant who can’t go to the police, puts him on the hunt for a missing little girl. By the time he reaches the mother’s small home, she’s missing, too. Then a team of heavily armed mercenaries arrive. Delgado and crew are plunged into a dangerous world of corporate competition, UFO lore, and government cover-ups.

4 out of 5 stars

Action packed humor

By
Bree Salyer
on
07-31-18

Not Alone

By:
Craig A. Falconer

Narrated by:
James Patrick Cronin

Length: 22 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
6,572

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,119

Story

4 out of 5 stars
6,108

When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies - a top-level alien cover-up - he leaks the files without a second thought. The incredible truth revealed by Dan's leak immediately captures the public's imagination, but Dan's relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places.

5 out of 5 stars

Impressive Book About Aliens & the Hype Industry

By
Russell
on
12-21-16

Quantum Space

Quantum Series, Book 1

By:
Douglas Phillips

Narrated by:
Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
204

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
187

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
185

High above the windswept plains of Kazakhstan, three astronauts on board a Russian Soyuz capsule begin their reentry. A strange shimmer in the atmosphere, a blinding flash of light, and the capsule vanishes in a blink as though it never existed. Daniel Rice is a government science investigator. Marie Kendrick is a NASA operations analyst. Together, they must track down the cause of the most bizarre event in the history of human spaceflight. They draw on scientific strengths as they plunge into the strange world of quantum physics.

5 out of 5 stars

Great - Hard Science

By
C. Hartmann
on
04-02-18

Trackers

Trackers, Book 1

By:
Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by:
Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,102

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,038

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,034

Estes Park police chief Marcus Colton and tracker Sam "Raven" Spears have never liked one another, but when a young girl goes missing in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colton hires Spears to help find her. Their search ends after a night of devastating horror. When word reaches Estes that the nation has been hit by a coordinated electromagnetic pulse attack, Colton and Spears are forced to work together again. But they quickly realize they aren't just tracking a killer - they are tracking a madman.

5 out of 5 stars

makes you think

By
N.W.Wisniewski
on
02-19-17

The Organ Takers: A Novel of Surgical Suspense

The McBride Trilogy Series, Book 1

By:
Richard Van Anderson

Narrated by:
Joel Richards

Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Failed surgeon David McBride is in exile from the surgical community after making a costly error in judgment. Down but not out, he perseveres and is given a second chance to establish a career in surgery. But, as McBride stands on the threshold of a new life, the malignant underside of his fellow man intervenes. Under the threat of violence, David is forced to perform illegal organ harvests in a makeshift operating room hidden in a dilapidated meatpacking warehouse in lower Manhattan.

5 out of 5 stars

WOW, that was intense!

By
Wayne
on
05-21-18

Breakthrough

By:
Michael C. Grumley

Narrated by:
Scott Brick

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,248

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,078

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,069

Deep in the Caribbean Sea, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances. Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator, John Clay, to a small group of marine biologists who are quietly on the verge of making history.

5 out of 5 stars

AMAZING!!!

By
FocusedOnTheJourney
on
07-22-17

The Atopia Chronicles, Book 1

By:
Matthew Mather

Narrated by:
Luke Daniels,
Nick Podehl,
Angela Dawe,
and others

Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
645

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
576

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
571

In the near future, to escape the crush and clutter of a packed and polluted Earth, the world’s elite flock to Atopia, an enormous corporate-owned artificial island in the Pacific Ocean. It is there that Dr. Patricia Killiam rushes to perfect the ultimate in virtual reality: a program to save the ravaged Earth from mankind’s insatiable appetite for natural resources.

2 out of 5 stars

I tried and I tried...

By
Jeri
on
07-10-14

Transport

By:
Phillip P. Peterson

Narrated by:
Jonathan Davis

Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
53

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
48

Story

4 out of 5 stars
48

Death-row inmate Russell Harris and nine other convicts are given the chance to save their lives by agreeing to travel as test subjects on the transporter. But when the first volunteer dies a gruesome death, it becomes clear to Russell and his comrades that the venture is little more than a merciless death mission on which they will all perish. The surviving Transporter project members find themselves on a new planet and establish a colony alongside a group of abandoned soldiers and scientists. But mortal peril approaches, and the battle for survival has only just begun.

3 out of 5 stars

endless 2nd half

By
Amazon Customer
on
04-23-18

Split Second

By:
Douglas E. Richards

Narrated by:
Kevin Pariseau

Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,390

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,238

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,245

What if you found a way to send something back in time? But not weeks, days, or even minutes back. What if you could only send something back a fraction of a second? Would this be of any use? You wouldn't have nearly enough time to right a wrong, change an event, or win a lottery. Nathan Wexler is a brilliant physicist who thinks he's found a way to send matter a split second back into the past. But before he can even confirm his findings, he and his wife-to-be, Jenna Morrison, find themselves in a battle for their very lives.

5 out of 5 stars

Amazing spin on time travel

By
Mr. Sagiv Hadaya
on
01-06-16

Genesis

By:
Ken Lozito

Narrated by:
Scott Aiello

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
818

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
737

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
737

Escaping wrongful imprisonment wasn't something Connor had in mind, but being put into stasis aboard Earth's first interstellar colony ship was something he couldn't have prepared for. For 300,000 colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start...a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he's the right man to see that it survives what's coming.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent read and excellent listen..

By
Trish R.
on
05-18-18

Infinity Born

By:
Douglas E. Richards

Narrated by:
Corey Gagne

Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
443

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
390

Story

4 out of 5 stars
390

When DARPA's billion-dollar program to create artificial superintelligence is sabotaged, US operative Cameron Carr is tasked with finding the culprit. He's been on high-stakes missions before, but this time the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity. Because the race to evolve a superintelligent computer is on, and power players around the world will stop at nothing to get there first.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent ScoFi Mystery Thriller...

By
shelley
on
08-14-17

Loch Ness Legacy

By:
Boyd Morrison

Narrated by:
David Marantz

Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
161

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
142

Story

4 out of 5 stars
142

During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory. Almost 200 years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack. Only through detective work, intuition, and a judicious application of high-tech weaponry does former Army combat engineer Tyler Locke prevent a massacre.

5 out of 5 stars

Good book , easy to follow, intersting

By
Tarja
on
11-07-13

The Outsider

By:
Stephen King

Narrated by:
Will Patton

Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
21,970

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
20,221

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
20,125

An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

4 out of 5 stars

Starts great, but lacks at the end.

By
Anonymous User
on
07-20-18

Publisher's Summary

The thrilling conclusion to The Extinction Files is finally here!

A code hidden in the human genome...will reveal the ultimate secret of human existence.

And could hold humanity's only hope of survival.

In 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. But the secrets it held were never revealed.

The truth was discovered 30 years ago, almost by accident. Dr. Paul Kraus had spent his entire career searching for what he called humanity's lost tribes - human ancestors who had gone extinct. When Kraus compared the DNA samples of the lost tribes with our own, he found a pattern of changes: a code. At the time, the technology didn't exist to unravel what it meant. To protect the secret, Kraus hid his work and disappeared. Now the technology exists to finally understand the mysterious code buried in the human genome, but finding the pieces of Kraus' research is more dangerous than anyone imagined.

Dr. Peyton Shaw and her mother have obtained part of Kraus' research - and a cryptic message that could lead to the remaining pieces. They believe his work is the key to stopping a global conspiracy - and an event that will change humanity forever.

The ultimate secret, buried in the human genome, will change our very understanding of what it means to be human. For Peyton, finding it may come at an incredible price. She must weigh the lives of strangers against those she loves: Desmond Hughes and her mother. With time running out, Peyton makes a fateful choice - one that can never be undone.

Good follow up

Went a very different route from when I started at the beginning of the first book. Not at all a bad thing but it was far from what I expected. Overall it was a good follow up to the first book and it wrapped the story up nicely.

Classic Sci Fi<br />

This is a good follow up to the first installment of the Extinction Files book 1. It offers imaginative and satisfying answers to big questions like why is mankind here, what is our purpose, what is our distiny, why did the aborigines stagnate after being the most advanced people of their time by being maybe the 1st seafaring people? Another answered question is why have we not seen probes from millions of others worlds that preceded earth by billions of years. These and others provocative questions are covered while telling an excellent story with interesting character with solid prose and a unique plot. I was intertained and my mind was expanded.

Exciting and interesting, but confusing and weird

Although this is a pretty exciting and interesting story, there are several problems that get in the way of interest. First, there are the myriad chapter jumps from character to character and from time to time with no clues. It is very confusing trying to figure out if a given chapter is happening now or some time in the past. And there is a LOT of past here, more than 50 years of it, and we have to keep those pasts straight for so many people. Stalingrad, Australia, Oklahoma, Germany, Spain, the North Atlantic. Now, last year, 5 years ago, 50 years ago, a billion years ago. I lost my place in the book once when my phone kept playing after I had put it down. It took me over half an hour, and a lot of relistening to figure out where I had been. THAT is a confusing story.

This has sort of mixed up genres. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. This one started out (in book 1) as a biological pandemic which then turned out to be a Lex Luther bioterrorism theme but now there's Virtual Reality and computer-controlled everything. This current volume takes it even further into VR and super computers. It's already confusing trying to figure out how their computer programs can do what they say they can, and then you have to understand how the Neanderthal cave paintings fit in (?), and then it just keeps getting weirder. Something is hidden in the human genome and it is supposed to answer the deepest questions of Man's existence. What's that question again? And where in the story, or Lin Shaw's genetic research, was this answered? Not much is answered because the question isn't clear. Most of the themes have been dealt with anyway in Star Trek in far less time and with less confusion.

It's a bit sci-fi. Our hero has hidden his memory in some computer somewhere? He has to find it to save the world.

It's a bit romance. Two women love him. Unless one just shrugs it off, there are only two ways for that to resolve, either one dies, or one has her heart broken. Take your pick.

The people cleverly change from being good guys to being bad guys or visy-versy. Who's hiding something? Who can you trust? You'll start with the eye rolling.

There are some good action scenes, but even they are confusing chronologically.

The last conversation of the story is the most confusing of all. It's supposed to be all high-brow intellectual philosophical and just ends stultifying: Let's not call the highest peak of our world by the name we use, let's be sly and use the name of the first surveyor-general of India and call it..... wait for it......Mt. Everest. Yeah, that'll obfuscate things.

Even though the story can keep you entertained, it is not satisfying because there's not a real moral, or a real conclusion. It's just kind of woo-woo, aren't we mysteriously esoteric!

Mr. Ballerini does well with all the voices except Lin Shaw's. She has to be 50-60 years old, but sounds like her daughter's sister.

Rollercoaster Ride

I enjoyed the premise and the story as it unfolded. The author kept me on the edge of my seat and I couldn’t wait to listen to the next chapter and the next chapter and the next chapter.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

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dave4381

07-19-18

Nowhere near as good as the first book

only managed to listen to half the story and got bored of it, I hardly ever not finish a story but I couldn't with this one

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4 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

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4 out of 5 stars

paul

07-16-18

Pause for thought

Excellent narration, well thought out and pieced together, I enjoy this type of story, totally enjoyable

Overall

5 out of 5 stars

Mr. Richard Ingram

07-10-18

Brilliant

A gripping and thoroughly entertaining audio book. Ingenious concept expertly narrated in almost disappointed to have finished it I enjoyed it so much!

Overall

4 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

Story

4 out of 5 stars

Crazypotato

07-01-18

Long awaited

I loved the first book in the series and had waited patiently for the sequel. It took a lot more patience for the story to finally get going, it didn’t have the pace and intrigue of the first. It’s certainly worth getting through the first 2/3s, of what is almost scene setting, to get to the meat of the story when it actually gets quite good and am glad I listened to it in its entirety.

Overall

2 out of 5 stars

Performance

3 out of 5 stars

Story

2 out of 5 stars

Nick

06-24-18

The last was OK - this is less of the same

The first book promised much but was only OK by the end. This is less interesting and seems to be made up of a great deal of chasing around about nothing. Contrived, dull and a bit silly really.

Overall

5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

Story

5 out of 5 stars

LORD BANE

04-08-18

Another FANTASTIC Sci-Fi EPIC from A.G. Riddle !!!

I was worried from about 3/4's through "Pandemic - Extinction Files (*Book 1)", that this series was eerily similar to the "Atlantis Trilogy" by Riddle !!!!I am VERY happy to say that here in the second book, my fears were mostly unfounded !!! The x2 series do have 'some' similarities,.......BUT the premises of both are at their core, Very VERY different !!!As ALWAYS I do NOT do spoilers or plot twists and try not to give to much of a books storyline away in reviews !!!This is a BRILLIANT conclusion of the series !!! Asking the age old questions,......"Where do we come from" ??"Why are we here" ???"What is our purpose" ????"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE,..... OUR EXISTENCE,....... WHERE DO WE ULTIMATELY GO,....... WHAT IS OUR FINAL DESTINATION" ?????A.G Riddle poses some EPIC questions in these x2 books !!! And gives some Truely frightening glimpses into possible journeys we as humans may decide to take !!! It is one of those books that really makes you think about the fundamental questions about life, where are we from, what is the point of "life" (*not the individual personal life,......but LIFE as a general question !!!) and ultimately what is our destiny !??!This is in my opinion, exactly what a "proper" Science Fiction book SHOULD do !!! It should make you travel the universe, life & make you wonder,......make you think,.......make you question,......."WHAT IF" ???????

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4 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

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4 out of 5 stars

Freda

04-02-18

Virtual Reality???

In 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. But the secrets it held were never revealed.The truth was discovered thirty years ago, by Dr. Paul Kraus who had spent his entire career searching for what he called humanity’s lost tribes—human ancestors who had gone extinct. He believed our DNA contained a code to the future of humanity. Dr. Peyton Shaw and her mother Lyn have obtained part of Kraus’s research—and a cryptic message that could lead to the remaining piece which Desmond Hughes invented and only he knows where it is hidden, all he has to do was to regain all his lost memories. His work is the key to stopping a global conspiracy and an event that will change humanity forever it is called the ‘Looking Glass’. There is another unscrupulous group who will do anything to get hold of this last piece in order to launch ‘Looking Glass’ including releasing a world-wide pathogen and killing anyone who gets in their way. There is quite a lot of flashback in this 2nd book (I reck0n around 50%+) and again technical and medical terms. I was very near the end before I understood what the Looking Glass was. I also thought the ending of the Epilogue was a bit on the silly side.

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4 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

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3 out of 5 stars

Suzanne

03-16-18

Frustrating

Many questions left open from book 1 were answered, but some coincidences left unexplained. A bit frustrating Performance generally excellent but some changes in pronunciation and accents from book 1

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5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

Amazon Customer

03-13-18

Great final part

Any additional comments?

All round a great 2 books . Well worth the 2 credits a very enjoyable listen kept me sitting in van sometimes after I had arrived home.

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5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

Olga Akselrad

03-08-18

Wow

I liked it quite well, just until the end. And the very last word unmade me and shook me and gave me a strong wish to cry in a good way. So, good job!

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Bart Primrose

03-27-18

Drawn out... again... but nevertheless a good ator

the premise is good. we follow the scramble left from the first book. the story is disjointed continually through the whole book, and everything about it is drawn out. almost to elicit some emotional attachment which can't be forced. the ending, almost an ex machina, is satisfactory. more attention needed to be placed there. not a bad story, not a thrilling story. not riddle's best work. I will still read the 3rd book in the series, but it has a lot to make up for